NDC Wins Sene West.| Globecalls.Com

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wins the controversial Sene West parliamentary seat after final counting was done on Thursday

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been declared the winner of the Sene West parliamentary seat in the Bono East Region after a dispute over the counting.

On Thursday the Wenchi High Court granted a fiat for the ballot box of Tato Battor Polling Station to be counted after the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) prayed the court to injunct the process.

The box had been snatched by one Christian Nukpeta and retrieved during the 7 December elections. He was slapped with a three-month jail term and banned from voting in any election for five years.

After the counting at the Techiman Divisional Headquarters of the Ghana Police Service, the NDC candidate had 275 as against the NPP’s 148. This brings the total figure to 13,231 votes for the NDC parliamentary candidate and 13,221 votes for the NPP candidate.

As it stands, the governing New Patriotic Party and the opposition NDC have 137 seats each in Parliament with one independent MP, who had already declared his intention to sit with the former.

“They [NDC] were just trying to approach me to see the need of being on their side, but I was frank with them that my constituents have told me that despite all that has happened with my party, they want me to be with the NPP, and therefore I’m here because of them [Fomena constituents],” Andrews Amoako Asiamah, the MP-elect for Fomena, in the Ashanti Region told the media.

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“So what they told me is what I’m going to do. So I made it clear to them (NDC),” Asiamah said.

“I appreciated the effort of approaching me but I also … told them that this is my position and it’s the position of the constituents.”